Graphic 45 Mini Book Class

We're having a Graphic 45 Journal Mini Book Workshop on Saturday 7th November 2009!

Where: Crafty Hearts papercrafts shop, upstairs classroom

Time: 11am - 3pm

Price: £15

Includes: All materials, tea,coffee, biscuits. Just need to bring yourself and lunch!

Ring 01772 739563 (our shop number) between 10am and 4.30pm Tuesday to Saturday if you want to book a place!

WARNING: ONLY A FEW PLACES LEFT

Item of The Week

Have just added to the website an item of the week (tis an item I reaally want, and in my head have justified its purchase, as I'm doing a travel journal lol!).

It's a set of K and Company clear stamps, called Happy Trails.

Apologies for the blurredness; a couple of mins prior to taking the photo I dropped my camera! Well really!

Anyhow, click here if you would like to purchase this stamp set for yourself :)

Thank-you-ness

First things first (and second things second):
Last night was our open evening here at Crafty Hearts in Preston and we just wanted to say a BIG thank you to everyone who came: thank you for all of your support, twas much appreciated and the night went really well, it put big smiles on our faces :D
I've realised that I have not added a post for over a month, how depressing - I did try a couple of times to add one, but the useful post icons like 'add image' disappear from time to time, so i had to wait. But no excuses after that: I need to blog more! To be honest, August was very unorganised for me, I normally journal (in a minibook) about my days, and I haven't managed that either. And so many images to add on here, and things to mention! My autumn resolution: learn how to be organised.
This week we have been so occupied with getting the shop ready for open evening (a lot of moving stock around - now I haven't a clue where anything is, even though I helped move it), that I didn't really get chance to look at all our new products properly. So today I did: and there's quite a few items I realllly want! A disadvantage of assisting running a craft shop, there's so many items to tempt....
Thank you again to everybody!
x x

Altered Art class 22nd Aug

Good Evening, just a quick note to say this is the sample for the next Altered Art workshop. Giant jigsaw piece hanging, with Banana Frog stamps, textures, Blonde Moments pearly paints and powders, and flowery layering. Apologies for the bad pictures; the light wasn't too good, the jigsaw piece backgrounds are actually black, not the brown that my camera came up with!















P.S If you want to book on this class, email
craftyhearts.shop@btinternet.com asap!
The class is £15 all materials included (except lunch) and it starts at 11am, sat 22nd aug.

x x

Our Online shop is up and running!

Shock horror, pinch myself, at last our website is all shipshape and Bristol fashion, you can order from it and everything! It has taken much faffing, and altering, and avoiding (making cards and scrapbooking is much easier than figuring out a website, call me old-fashioned), but at last it is up...phew.
It hasn't got nearly so much items in it as our physical shop in Preston, Lancs, has, but bare with me: I shall add a little bit each day! So keep looking, you never know what you might find.

Happy shopping,

Leanne......a Craftybirrrd
x

Dust off that sewing machine

My photos for last Sunday were of a card I made for my cousin, for his birthday.

I haven't used my sewing machine in ages, such a shame.

But it came out from its hiding place this week. For my cousin I stitched a bike and made a little newspaper bag (as he delivers these :P). Also, I used my machine to make Fabric ATCs for the swap I joined on UKScrappers. But I won't put a piccie on yet of those, I'll wait a tad longer and put a post up next week :)

Hello Hello

Wow, can't believe how long it has been since my last post! I have been so disorganised, and what with classes, then general hecticness, lots of hot weather (I feel bad being on computer on sunny days as British sun seems so elusive!), lots of birthdays, and last week I was ill ; blog seems to have been neglected!

Lots of projects that are unfinished I do not post, as I think they ought to be finished before I take a piccie of them, but finally decided to do the 365 photo-a-day challenge that so many UKScrappers members seem to be doing. I love taking photos, even though many are rather amateurish, but at least now I have an excuse for the photos I take of my journey to work, new goodies that arrive at work, and all my UFO's i.e. unfinished objects!

I have been doing this photo challenge for 2 weeks now, and some are not brilliant, and sometimes I forget, so aim is to have taken at least 7 by end of each week :)

So here goes, here are bits from my first week of photos.

I bought a red vintage suitcase from Oxfam Vintage. So excited by it, probably sounds quite sad, but I like vintage things :) I had to then carry it round as I went shopping, but proudly carried it.

An unknown flower that has sprung up at my family's allotment. The flowers look so pretty; maybe would like nice in stitch.

I keep taking photos of the daisies in the back garden, before they suffer the weekly mow.

In the week I started this photo-taking promise, twas my birthday. Guess my age, can you guess?!